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Kinette Club Celebrates Past Presidents Night A record nineteen past presidents of the Bow- manville Kinette Club turned out for the organization's organization's annual dinner meeting recently to honor the former club leaders. Charter president Helen Dunn was among the past presidents to attend the affair. The meeting was held at the San Marino Restaurant in the Waverley Mall. Tlje past presidents presidents are shown above front row from left: Bar bara Masters, Iris Murray, Helen Dunn, Linda McRobbie and Doreen Neamtu. Rear from left: Helen Brown, Barb Connell, Connie Wiseman, Pat. Schell, Lil Hooper, Ev Werry, Virginia Fairey, Ruby Woodward, Marilyn Webster, Barb Borutski, Jane Evans, Donna Fairey, Linda Bergeron (Belleville (Belleville past president), and Tina Tink. News from Kinettes Hear Address About Wife Beating 4H Club On February 3rd, we held our first meeting of 4-H quilting at 7:30 p.m. The meeting was held at Mrs, Eikens house. The members of this project are Matilda Eikens, Anita Mostert, Anita Sikma, Loretta Mostert, Valerie Sikma, Cornelia Mostert and Wilfreda Mostert. Mrs. Kaptyn and Mrs. Eikens are our leaders. We opened the meeting with the 4-H pledge. At this time we also read over a skit which explained how a meeting should be run. We elected Valerie Sikma as president of this club, Matilda Eikens as Vice President, Loretta Mostert as Treasurer, and Wildreda Mostert as Secretary and Press Reporter. After this we read through the Introduction to Quilting and the Materials and Equipment we would need. We decided to have the next meeting at Mrs. Eikens at 7:00 on Friday and stopped for a break. Then we answered the roll call, which asked, what we would like to learn in this project. We cut out the templates for "Moon Over the Mountain," the sample we are going to quilt. The meeting was then closed by Valerie Sikma and Cornelia Mostert seconded the motion. A thought provoking address dealing with the issue of wife beating was the guest speaker's topic during the Bowmanville Kinette Club's annual past president's meeting Wednesday, Feb. 15th. Robin Bradley of Oshawa, a member of a Durham citizens group working to open a hostel for abused wives, talked about wife beating and showed a film which detailed the problem. The speaker is shown above (right) following the meeting with Kinette Jane Evans. ANNUAL MEETING tit* Family and Children's Services of the Durham Region Thursday, March 8,1984 at 8:00 p.m. Ajax Council Chambers 65 Harwood South, Ajax, Ontario Panel Discussion on Adoption Disclosure: Whose Rights Come First? Letters to the Editor Dear Johnny, Several weeks ago I wrote a simple little "letter to the editor." If I don't get stopped pretty soon it is going to interfere interfere with the spring house cleaning or gardening or both. However, in an Oshawa paper of Feb. 18 (Statesman, Feb. 22) it was reported there was some talk of pensions for councillors and the discussion was led by Veteran Durham Regional Councillor, Newcastle Newcastle Mayor Garnet Rickard. The Mayor says he has nothing nothing to gain from the plan which would not be retroactive retroactive ( ? ). But, he predicted dire consequences if the pension plan is not set up very shortly. Not all councillors agreed with our mayor but the motion passed, calling for a report on a possible pension plan. The first report is now in (one week later) and the bottom line is that after 35 years service a regional councillor councillor would be eligible for a $4000.00 yearly pension. This did not go over too well so the committee voted to do a more in-depth study of pension plans. Three things I would like to point out. 1. The Regional Councillors act very quickly when there is m J STOP DONT BUY A CAR UNTIL YOU DRIVE A SUBARU LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT US WE'LL SURPRISE YOU! Starting at s 8,295. Rated No. 1 in Owner Satisfaction C & C MOTOR SALES 155 King St. W. OSHAWA 579-6224 a chance to pick up a little more money. 2. For some years now, no elected representatives at the municipal, provincial, or federal levels have been after more money for themselves. All those raises were to attract a higher standard of person to run for office. 3. There are a number of persons in the Town of Newcastle Newcastle who consider our council a bit less than mediocre. mediocre. Our Mayor has put his finger on the weakness. Not having a pension plan discourages discourages "intellectual and bright" people from running for office. In their place we get "retired people, independent businessmen and people with wealthy spouses." So, on our council we have three retirees. Mr. Rickard, Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Woodyard. We have Mrs. Cowman and Mrs. Hubbard, both presumably presumably married to wealthy spouses. I know little about Mr. Taylor but a phone call tells me he helps work a family farm and sells some sort of insurance. Apparently, his wife drives a school bus and has a mail route. Whether Mr. Taylor has the time necessary to be one of the intellectual and bright people we need is rather open to question. Mrs. Harare would seem to be eligible, under the newly announced guide lines. It would appear at this time that the changes the mayor is advocating may well he realized realized next election, Morgan Dear John: February 22,1984 The students, parents and staff at Waverley Public School would like to say a special thanks to you and your staff for the support you have given our school over the past years. The students are thrilled to see themselves and their friends in your paper, I am certain that the community enjoys these items as well. Yours in education, J.R.Simser, Principal Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, February 29,1984 9 LETTER TO THE EDITOR February 16,1984 Mr. Sam Cureatz, M.P.P. Durham East Constituency Office 34A King Street West Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 1R2 Dear Sam: In response to your request, request, this letter will clarify matters concerning the Section Section 63 Reassessment in the Town of Newcastle. As we know, the Town of Newcastle Ratepayers Association Association has requested the Council of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle to review the resolution resolution passed by Council on November 28,1983 requesting requesting the implementation of an equalization of assessment assessment in the Town of Newcastle Newcastle under Section 63(3) of the Assessment Act. In considering this situation, situation, it is important to understand understand the process which led to the reassessment in the Town of Newcastle. At its meeting held on January 24, 1983, the Council Council of the Town of Newcastle adopted the following resolution: resolution: "That the Ministry of Revenue Revenue be asked to update the Assessment Roll using 1930 values rather than 1975 values and bring forward an impact study for the Town's consideration." consideration." In response to this resolution resolution of Council, I directed the Regional Assessment Commissioner for Durham to prepare a tax impact study employing a 1980 market market value base for presentation presentation to and review by the Council of the Town of Newcastle. Newcastle. As you know, the purpose of the impact study is to provide Council with a detailed analysis, by property property class and ward, of the tax changes that would occur if Council were to request request implementation of a Section 63 reassessment. At this juncture, it is worth noting that some of the main features of the Section 63 Reassessment Program are: * Available on a voluntary basis to municipalities. . Municipal Council by formal formal resolution requests the Minister of Revenue to implement implement a Section 63 reassessment. reassessment. To date, 434 municipalities have voluntarily voluntarily implemented Section 63 reassessment, of which 24 municipalities have implemented implemented it for a second time. A further 142 municipalities municipalities have been reassessed reassessed at market value, for a total of 576 out of 838 Ontario Ontario municipalities on a market value base. * Corrects assessment inequities inequities within property classes within a municipality. municipality. There are five main property classes. * Prevents tax shifts from one property class to another class by ensuring that each property class will bear the same proportion proportion of the total tax burden • following the reassessment as it did before. * Revises all property assessments assessments on the basis of their 1980 market value. Previously, Town of Newcastle's Newcastle's assessments were based on 1975 market value. * Prevents erosion of the tax base. Property assessments assessments are made defensible because they are based on updated property information information as a result of recent inspections inspections and more current market value data; thereby preventing the erosion of the tax base and consequent consequent tax shifts which occur as a result of successful successful appeals. * Ensures the constant value of the assessment base. In this regard, experience experience has indicated that in the year in which a reassessment reassessment is implemented, there are a relatively large number of appeals, some of which are successful. For this reason, the assessment of each property class is adjusted, adjusted, in part, to reflect potential potential losses through first- year appeals. In addition, the assessment of each property class is adjusted to reflect the increases in value that are attributable to alterations and improvements improvements that add less than $2,500.00 market value. The accumulative adjustment of each property class ratio is approximately 2 percent. This adjustment ensures that the municipality will receive the same amount of revenue from its new assessment assessment base as it would have from the previous Roll, given the same mill rates. All these features were incorporated in the Regional Regional Assessment Commissioner's Commissioner's presentation of the tax impact study at a meeting meeting of Council on November 14, 1983, The Regional Assessment Assessment Commissioner attended attended another Council meeting on November 28, 1983 dealing witli the same tax impact study. Alter listening listening to the presentations and reviewing the tax impact impact study, the Council of the Town of Newcastle passed the following resolution resolution onNovember28,1983: "That the Minister of Revenue Revenue be requested to update the 1983 Assessment Assessment Roll for the Town of Newcastle, on the basis of 1980 Market Values, pursuant to Section Section 63(3) of the Assess- ment Act. R.S.O., 1980." Based on this resolution of Council, and Council's expressed concerns about inequalities in the Town of Newcastle's assessments, and that the usual procedures procedures had been followed; (that is, Council was fully briefed on the impact of a reassessment and that their request for its implementation implementation was clear and unequivocal), unequivocal), I had prepared and filed on January 11, 1984, the Regulation setting out the classes and ratios required to implement the reassessment in the Town of Newcastle. I also directed directed the Regional Assess- ment'Commissioner to pre pare assessment notices and the new Roll using the 1980 market value base. The assessment notices were mailed on or before January January 9,1984 and Open Houses commenced January 18, 1984. My actions in response to the request of the Council of the Town of Newcastle were in accordance with the authority provided me in section 63(3) of the Assessment Assessment Act. It is important to note that the Assessment Act authorizes authorizes the Minister of Revenue, Revenue, upon receipt of a requesting requesting resolution from a Municipal Council, to equalize assessments to eliminate inequalities. There is, however, no provision provision that would permit the Minister of Revenue to roll back assessments to their previous inequitable levels. Even if it were within the power of the Minister of Revenue, Revenue, it is extremely doubtful whether a roll back would be advisable at this stage. Municipal Council Council and its ratepayers will recognize that previous inequalities inequalities of assessment are now documented in the new assessment notices in which those assessments are reduced, and that even if the reassessment was to be reversed, those property owners could use the information information to appeal their assessments assessments successfully. This would cause a serious erosion of the municipal tax base as well as preserve the inequities in the under-assessed under-assessed properties. Persons who are dissatisfied dissatisfied with their assessments have the right to have those assessments reviewed by an independent body, the Assessment Assessment Review Board. The final date for filing such an appeal is March 7, 1984. Finally, while it is not possible possible to reverse a reassessment, reassessment, it should be noted that the Municipal Act does permit permit a Municipal Council to phase-in tax increases that result from a general assessment. assessment. In this regard, section 362 of the Municipal Act allows allows Council to pass a bylaw bylaw to limit increases and reduce decreases for different different classes of rateable property for different periods of time not exceeding exceeding five years. Council may prescribe varying or similar similar amounts or percentages or both with respect to the amounts or percentages of increases to be limited than are prescribed for the amounts or percentages of decreases to be reduced and different greater amounts or greater percentages percentages or both may be prescribed prescribed for different classes of rateable property. property. I trust that these comments comments will be helpful in your discussions with the Council of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle and its ratepayers. Sincerely, Bud Gregory Minister Knox Christian School Holds Penny Carnival The annual Knox Christian School penny carni- dents organized games of chance and food conces- val to raise money for Christian education text sions. Shown above in the foreground is student books was held in the school gymnasium Wed., Julius Siebenga and his father Ren Feb. 15th. To generate funds the grade six stu- m I ittiitttitimttmtttttt BOB PHILLIPS T.V. & VIDEO BULK PRICES... 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